Syed Iqbal Hasnain | |
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Born | India |
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Years active | ????–2010 |
Awards | Padma Shri |
Syed Iqbal Hasnain is an Indian glaciologist, writer, educationist and the Chairman of the Glacier and Climate Change Commission of the Government of Sikkim. [1] He is a former vice chancellor of the University of Calicut [2] and a member of the United Nations Environment Program Committee on Global Assessment of Black Carbon and Troposphere Ozone. [3]
Between 2002 and 2006, Hasnain served as a vice-chancellor (President) of the University of Calicut, India. Previously, he held the post of Professor of Glaciology, Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), where he introduced glaciology as a subject at the post-graduate research level.
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